I often think about stellar albums. The ones where they’re really isn’t a skip-able track. Off the top of my head, these come to mind: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Collective Soul Collective Soul (blue album), Bush 16 Stone, and Green Day Dookie. What are some of your perfect albums?
Radiohead’s Kid A has no filler tracks. Anyone who thinks Treefingers is filler is wrong
Do people think Treefingers is filler? Wtf, that track is fucking awesome and a much needed breather for that album
Makoto Matsushita - First Light
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Psychology, Presto
Dogs in a Pile - Bloom, Not Your Average Beagle
Nautilus - Refrain
Teako Onuki - Mignonne, Sunshower
Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77, American Beauty
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Bad Religion - No Control, The Empire Strikes First
Led Zeppelin - II, IV
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
War Bringer - Woe to the Vanquished
Havok - Conformicide
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places
Rainbow - Difficult to Cure, Straight Between the Eyes
Casiopea - CASIOPEA, Asian Dreamer, Material
Phish - Farmhouse, Hoist
Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Might’ve went a bit overboard lol
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Blackwater Park - Opeth
A few I can think of right now:
AC/DC - If You Want Blood (maybe cheating a bit because it’s a compilation of songs from different albums, but it’s the best live album of all time to me and AC/DC at their rockingest.)
All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker or Nothing A The Ideal (both albums warrant a full playthrough almost always.)
Elephant Tree - Elephant Tree (my favorite album of the last decade)
Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (although Elder keep getting better and better, and are ever more amazing live, this album has a special place in my heart)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (masterpiece from beginning to end.)
I’m late to the party but couldn’t miss putting Daily Bread’s album Invisible Cinema in the thread
- The Foo Fighters - The Foo Fighters
- The Foo Fighters - The Color & The Shape
- 65daysofstatic - Wild Light
- Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
- The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
There isn’t a note I’d change on any of those albums.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Twin Fantasy - Car Seat Headrest
Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill
+1 for Twin Fantasy. I haven’t listened to a lot of CSH’s discography but man that album… every time I hear a song I’m pulled back in and end up listening to the whole thing. It’s amazing how quickly those 15 minute songs seem to end.
Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.
Tool - Aenima
Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience
Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser
Depeche Mode - Violator
Faith No More - The Real Thing.
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A few that I don’t see mentioned …
- Carol King - Tapestry
- Pearl Jam - Yield
- Van Morrison - Moondance
- Fountains of Wayne - self titled
Nirvana - Nevermind
Ott - Mir The Oh Hellos - Through the Deep Dark Valley Electric Light Orchestra - Time Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz At Massey Hall
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, In A Silent Way
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Speaking In Tongues
Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West
Deodato - Prelude
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
Earth Wind & Fire - Head To The Sky
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Fishbone - Truth And Soul, The Reality Of My Surroundings
Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D-Evolution
Nina Simone - Black Gold
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Paul Simon - Graceland
Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
Chick Corea - Light As A Feather
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang
That’s probably enough for now…
This will probably get buried in the comments, but Lohio by Ass Ponys is a really solid album. Just banger after banger.
